Recaps

Cao Yu's team defeated Wu Feng, Nanmen Yun'er, and Hong Lei in the freshman tournament, with Cao Yu taunting Wu Feng before and after the match. Wu Feng vowed to surpass him, while Nanmen Yun'er reminded her that their opponents would keep improving too.

• Cao Yu introduced himself without revealing his Soul Power Level and provoked Wu Feng by claiming he would fight without using his hands.
• Wang Dong revealed his Light Goddess Butterfly wings as Wu Feng activated her Red Dragon Martial Soul and attacked Cao Yu.
• Cao Yu kicked Wu Feng away, and his team defeated Wu Feng, Nanmen Yun'er, and Hong Lei in about two minutes.
• Cao Yu and Wang Dong mocked Wu Feng, and the supervising teacher announced Team Wang Dong as the winner while warning them to respect their opponents.
• Wu Feng vowed to surpass Cao Yu, but Nanmen Yun'er pointed out that both teams would continue to improve, and Hong Lei timidly agreed.

After Cao Yu’s team defeated Wu Feng’s team, Zhou Yi collected her wager while Mu Jin encouraged the defeated freshmen to learn from the loss. Wang Dong and Cao Yu cultivated together overnight, then joined Xiao Xiao for the round-of-sixteen draw, where Elder Xuan took an interest in Cao Yu.

• Wu Feng complained about losing, while Nanmen Yun'er and Hong Lei agreed that their opponent was handsome.
• Zhou Yi reminded Mu Jin of their wager, then Mu Jin told Wu Feng to rest and learn from the defeat.
• Cao Yu brought food back for Wang Dong, and Wang Dong persuaded him to cultivate together overnight.
• Cao Yu, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao arrived at the round-of-sixteen draw and spotted Huang Chutian’s team among the remaining contestants.
• Elder Xuan asked Wang Yan to treat Cao Yu’s team well, especially Little Yu, and said he would watch their match.
• Xie Huanyue, Luo Tianlong, and Luo Tianba introduced themselves before the elimination match began.

Cao Yu, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao fought Xie Huanyue and the Luo brothers in a team match. Cao Yu knocked out the Luo brothers, then helped defeat Xie Huanyue, securing Team Wang Dong’s victory.

• Xie Huanyue transformed and leapt at Cao Yu’s team while Xiao Xiao slowed the opponents with her Nine Phoenix Worshipping Flute.
• Cao Yu struck Luo Tianlong and Luo Tianba with a whip kick, knocking them out of the fight.
• Xiao Xiao’s Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons failed to harm Xie Huanyue, whose defense and strength overwhelmed her attack.
• Cao Yu rescued Xiao Xiao from Xie Huanyue’s strike, then coordinated with Wang Dong’s Wing Guillotine to attack him.
• Cao Yu’s punches stunned Xie Huanyue until he passed out, and the supervising teacher announced Team Wang Dong as the winner.

Cao Yu, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao reached the freshman tournament semifinals after Xiao Xiao defeated their opponents. The next morning, Dean Yan Shaozhe oversaw the draw, pairing Wang Dong’s team with Dai Huabin’s team as Cao Yu wondered whether the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion suspected him.

• Xuan Zi praised Zhou Yi’s students and told her not to be too harsh on Cao Yu, asking her to report any trouble to him first.
• Wang Dong drew a match against a weaker team, and Xiao Xiao defeated all three opponents with Wang Dong’s support while Cao Yu watched.
• Cao Yu, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao advanced to the final four, then ate and cultivated before the next day’s matches.
• Yan Shaozhe introduced himself as Shrek Academy’s dean and relayed Xuan Zi’s encouragement to Cao Yu.
• Cao Yu drew lot number two for Wang Dong’s team, then Dai Huabin greeted him respectfully, leaving Cao Yu to think the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion had not suspected him.

Cao Yu's team defeated Zhou Sichen's team in the semifinals and advanced to the finals. After classmates celebrated him, Xiao Xiao and Luo Yan competed for his attention, leaving him overwhelmed.

• Dai Huabin drew the first semifinal match and showed Cao Yu respect before returning to his team.
• Zhou Sichen, Long Xiangyue, and Cao Jinxuan charged Cao Yu's trio with a formation supported by two summoned creatures.
• Cao Yu smashed the stinking bear and fierce tiger, and his team defeated their opponents in under a minute.
• Class One students lifted Cao Yu in celebration as Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao watched.
• Xiao Xiao hugged Cao Yu's arm, then Luo Yan grabbed his other arm, and the two girls glared at each other.

Cao Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong defeated Dai Huabin’s team in the freshman assessment final and won the elimination tournament championship. Du Weilun announced that awards and first-year class assignments would take place the next morning.

• Cao Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong entered the final against Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie.
• Cao Yu interrupted Dai Huabin’s White Tiger transformation with a kick and knocked him flying.
• Cao Yu struck Dai Huabin again, and Dai Huabin surrendered; Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao defeated Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie.
• Du Weilun declared Cao Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong the champions and announced the next morning’s awards and class assignments.
• Wang Dong rolled her eyes as Cao Yu boasted that winning had been easy.

After Cao Yu, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao won the freshman assessment tournament, they celebrated with friends at the shop. At the awards ceremony, they were named champions and core disciples, and Du Weilun led them to collect their special reward.

• Zhou Yi embraced Cao Yu and his teammates after their victory, while Dai Huabin respectfully said goodbye to Cao Yu.
• Tang Ya, Ning Tian, and Jiang Nannan celebrated with Cao Yu and the others at the shop, where Ning Tian shared a cross-cupped toast with Cao Yu.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi congratulated Cao Yu, and Tang Ya explained that the top teams would receive core disciple status.
• Du Weilun announced the top three teams, named Cao Yu, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao champions, and said each top team could request help finding a suitable Soul Ring.
• Du Weilun announced that Cao Yu, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao had become core disciples and told them to follow him to collect their special championship reward.

Cao Yu gave Xiao Xiao a Soul Bone, and the two became boyfriend and girlfriend after he admitted his complicated engagements and feelings for Luo Yan. In Class One, Cao Yu was elected Power Attack System monitor and secured Huo Yuhao’s candidacy for Control System monitor.

• Cao Yu gave Xiao Xiao his Soul Bone, and she kissed him before he returned the kiss and agreed they were boyfriend and girlfriend.
• Cao Yu told Xiao Xiao that Little Ya and the others were his fiancées, that Luo Yan seemed to like him, and that Xu Jiujiu was another fiancée.
• Cao Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Luo Yan arrived in Class One, where Luo Yan celebrated being seated beside Cao Yu again.
• Wang Yan announced the class monitor election, and Cao Yu won the Power Attack System vote by a wide margin.
• Cao Yu tried to hand the monitor position to Wang Dong but agreed to serve if Huo Yuhao became Control System monitor.

After becoming Class One's Power Attack System class monitor, Cao Yu spent the following weeks studying and advancing to the Soul Ancestor realm. He entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Xuan Zi to hunt for a Soul Ring, where he revealed that all three of his existing Soul Rings were a hundred thousand years old.

• Wang Yan announced that Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao had been elected Power Attack System and Control System class monitors, respectively.
• Cao Yu asked Huo Yuhao to handle class affairs and promised him Soul Bones, while Wang Dong unsuccessfully asked to take Cao Yu's place.
• Cao Yu continued his studies and cultivation, dealt with Wu Feng's repeated challenges, and advanced to the Soul Ancestor realm in less than a month.
• Xuan Zi took Cao Yu into the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Soul Ring and showed him a ten-thousand-year Goldwood Ape hunting a flying Soul Beast.
• Cao Yu rejected the Goldwood Ape and said he wanted a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, then told the astonished Xuan Zi that all his existing Soul Rings were a hundred thousand years old.

Cao Yu and Xuan Zi traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest’s Inner Circle to find a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. Xuan Zi subdued a weakened hundred-thousand-year Shadow Wind Demon Wolf, and Cao Yu killed it for its Soul Ring.

• Xuan Zi recovered from seeing Cao Yu’s red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and led him deeper into the forest.
• Cao Yu and Xuan Zi found two Shadow Wind Demon Wolves beneath a waterfall and waited until they separated.
• After the younger wolf left, Xuan Zi attacked the weakened hundred-thousand-year wolf and knocked it down.
• Xuan Zi called Cao Yu over, and Cao Yu killed the Shadow Wind Demon Wolf with his greatsword.

After eight months at Shrek Academy, Cao Yu finished his first academic year and prepared to leave for vacation with Wang Dong. Their awkward hot pot dinner ended in rumors from the other diners, and the chapter left them facing the start of the academy break and an advancement assessment after a month.

• Cao Yu absorbed the red Soul Ring from the Shadow Wind Demon Wolf, and Xuan Zi took him away.
• Cao Yu completed his dream-entry mission and received the Seventy-Two Transformations, while Senior Xiaotao continued asking him to suppress her Evil Fire.
• As vacation approached, Cao Yu invited Wang Dong to visit him in Star Luo City, and she asked him to have dinner with her.
• At the hot pot restaurant, Wang Dong offered Cao Yu meat while dressed as a boy, prompting other diners to gossip and making her blush with embarrassment.
• The next day, Wang Dong continued acting shy around Cao Yu, and Wang Yan read the class the advancement assessment requirements before dismissing everyone to pack.

Cao Yu returned to the Cao Clan and reunited with his family and old friends, who celebrated his growth and new rank. The chapter ended with a drunken Xu Tianshui urging him to visit Xu Jiujiu, while Cao Yanjun warned Cao Xiang to protect the still-young Cao Yu from matchmaking pressure.

• At the Cao Clan’s Sun Moon Empire branch, a fat man and a cloaked man pressured Cao Tian to help them take control of the clan, threatening to expose his secret trafficking of high-grade Soul Tools.
• Cao Tian asked for a few days to think, then told the men to bring more people when they returned.
• Xu Tianshui, Liu Kongzhu, and Lu Xuanshui hurried to the Cao Clan after hearing Cao Yu had returned, bringing gifts and wine.
• Cao Yu reunited with Cao Yanjun, Cao Xiang, and Luo Lingyun, and told his visitors that he had reached Soul Ancestor rank.
• At a celebratory dinner, Xu Tianshui got drunk and insisted Cao Yu should visit Xu Jiujiu, but Uncle Li escorted Cao Yu to his room.
• After seeing the guests off, Cao Yanjun warned Cao Xiang to keep the matchmakers away because Cao Yu was still young.

Cao Yu returned to the Cao Clan, reunited with Xu Jiujiu, and opened a KFC shop. His homecoming turned tense when Cao Tian, his uncle and head of the clan’s Sun Moon Empire branch, arrived with armed followers and refused to surrender the branch’s revenue.

• Cao Yu greeted the clan’s residents, checked that the shops were running smoothly, and learned that Uncle Wu’s son had married.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Cao Yu, teased him for not coming to see her, and questioned whether he had pursued other girls at the academy.
• Cao Yu announced his new KFC shop, whose fried chicken and drumsticks sold well on opening day.
• Cao Yu saw armed men entering the Cao Clan residence and heard that their leader was Cao Tian, Cao Xiang’s elder brother.
• Cao Tian told Cao Xiang he would not hand over any of the branch’s revenue, then complained that he had been denied the status and comfort he deserved.

Cao Tian returned to seize the Cao Clan leadership from Cao Xiang, but Cao Yu and his allies stopped him and his son, Cao Fei. Cao Yu killed both men to claim both rewards from a hidden mission.

• Cao Tian demanded that Cao Xiang surrender the clan leadership, arguing that he and Cao Fei were more powerful.
• Xu Tianshui and the Royal Guard subdued Cao Tian's men outside the estate as Cao Yu and his allies entered the hall.
• Xu Tianshui seized Cao Tian and Cao Fei and temporarily sealed their Martial Souls.
• Cao Yu triggered a hidden mission that offered one reward for sparing Cao Tian and another for killing him and Cao Fei.
• Cao Yu had Xu Tianshui cripple their Martial Souls, then killed Cao Tian and Cao Fei and claimed both rewards.

Cao Yu used Immoral Dog to turn the captured rebels into loyal human pets and learned that they included skilled Soul Engineers sent to support Cao Tian. As a research institute was built for them, Xu Jiawei urged Xu Jiujiu to secure Cao Yu before he wandered off again.

• Cao Yu brought Immoral Dog to the hall and ordered it to subdue the captured rebels, including a Soul Douluo who resisted until Cheng Gang knocked him unconscious.
• Immoral Dog converted more than twenty rebels, who revealed that Cao Tian had pledged allegiance to the Sun Moon Empire and that they had been sent to help him claim the Cao Clan leadership.
• Cao Yu asked Cao Xiang to prepare space in the rear courtyard for a Soul Tool research institute, and Xu Tianshui sent royal builders to construct it.
• At the royal hall, Xu Jiawei approved the intervention at the Cao Clan and told Xu Jiujiu to try harder to tie Cao Yu down before he left.

Cao Yu arranged a safer research institute and traveled to the Sun Moon Empire to investigate the Cao Clan branch and recruit Soul Engineers. He found the branch looted and its people taken away, leaving its elderly steward Cao Fu to explain that Cao Tian’s cooperation with the empire had brought the confiscation upon them.

• Cao Yu asked Xu Tianshui to search for uranium ore and chose an outskirts site for a new research institute.
• Cao Yu finalized the institute’s plans, then set out for the Cao Clan branch with Immoral Dog, his Shadow Clone, and Xu Tianshui.
• Sun Moon Empire soldiers seized the branch’s wealth and detained its residents, leaving the elderly steward Cao Fu behind.
• Cao Yu and his companions reached the branch in Sunrise City and found its gate plaque fallen and its courtyard stripped.
• Cao Fu recognized Cao Yu and said Cao Tian had cooperated with the Sun Moon Empire, which had confiscated the estate and taken the branch’s people away.

Cao Yu infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire’s mine and freed the Cao Clan prisoners, then returned to Sunrise City to scout the Imperial Soul Tool Academy. The chapter leaves him hidden in a laboratory as two women enter and one asks Ju Zi why she did not speak to a handsome senior.

• Uncle Fu explained that the Cao Clan prisoners had been sent to a dangerous mine, and Cao Yu and Xu Tianshui traveled there to rescue them.
• Cao Yu used an invisibility cloak to scout the mine, then sent an empowered Shadow Clone and Immoral Dog to subdue the guards and free the Cao Clan prisoners.
• Cao Yu sent Xu Tianshui and the rescued people toward Star Luo City while he stayed behind to explore the Sun Moon Empire.
• Cao Yu entered the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and searched a laboratory, dismissing the blueprints he found there.
• Two women entered the laboratory, and one asked Ju Zi why she had not spoken to a handsome senior who had just passed by.

Cao Yu secretly raided the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool research building, stealing models, blueprints, and Storage Soul Tools before a basement alarm exposed the break-in. He escaped detection and hid in a nearby building, where his stained invisibility cloak threatened to reveal him.

• Ju Zi and Ke Ke discussed Ju Zi’s romantic prospects while Cao Yu watched from hiding, then he left to search the building.
• Cao Yu transformed into an ant, entered a research room, and stole Soul Tool models, blueprints, and the engineers’ Storage Soul Tools.
• Cao Yu searched the upper floors and filled more than half of the Ring of Destiny with useful equipment and documents.
• Cao Yu tried to take a missile-shaped Soul Tool in the basement, triggering an alarm that summoned guards and alerted the Sun Moon Empire.
• Cao Yu escaped as a fly and hid in a nearby building, but his nosebleed stained the invisibility cloak and someone noticed him.

Cao Yu was caught sneaking into Ju Zi’s room and faced her questions about his intrusion. After hiding from someone searching for him, he escaped with his invisibility cloak and left Ju Zi with a necklace.

• Cao Yu revealed himself to Ju Zi and tried to leave, but she stopped him and pinned him down while asking how he should be punished.
• Cao Yu proposed marrying Ju Zi, but she rejected the idea and questioned him about why he had entered her room, how long he had been there, and his clothes.
• When someone knocked and asked Ju Zi about a suspicious intruder, Cao Yu hid in her wardrobe, and Ju Zi denied seeing anyone.
• Ju Zi let Cao Yu out after the searcher left and asked why he was being pursued; Cao Yu claimed he had turned the Sun Moon Empire’s crown prince into a eunuch.
• Cao Yu gave Ju Zi a necklace as a token of love, then vanished using his invisibility cloak.

Cao Yu returned to the Cao Clan after taking a Soul Tool and bringing Soul Engineers back from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, where he began establishing a research institute and arranging work for the rescued people. He sorted the young people by aptitude and started a science school for those with weaker cultivation potential, leaving them to begin their first lesson.

• Ju Zi stared at the necklace Cao Yu had given her, then put it away.
• Cao Yu escaped the academy through the sewers and brought an unfinished Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell to the research institute, where Wang Gang identified it and explained that the Sun Moon Empire kept finished versions as military reserves.
• Xu Tianshui told Cao Yu and Cao Xiang that the emperor was holding a banquet that evening and invited the whole family.
• Cao Yu assigned the older people from the branch to the clan’s expanding shops and sorted the youths by innate soul power.
• Cao Yu sent the youths with higher aptitude to cultivate and led fifty others to a new school, where he introduced himself as their principal and began a mathematics lesson.

Cao Yu taught a group of youngsters modern science and realized that advancing technology would require specialists. After a palace banquet where Xu Jiawei promised him a dukedom upon his marriage to Xu Jiujiu, a drunken Cao Yu was led to a room with Jiujiu, where he held her and touched her cheek.

• Cao Yu finished teaching his students, answered their questions, and planned to divide them into subject groups.
• Cao Yu and his family went to the imperial palace for a banquet with Xu Jiawei, Xu Tianshui, and Xu Jiujiu.
• The guests discussed Cao Yu and Xu Jiujiu's wedding and plied Cao Xiang, the old man, and Cao Yu with alcohol.
• Xu Jiawei promised to make Cao Yu a duke after his marriage to Jiujiu, and Cao Yu joked that he wanted to be chancellor instead.
• Drunk and unsteady, Cao Yu let Xu Jiujiu guide him to a room, then held her and touched her cheek.

Cao Yu and Xu Jiujiu spent the night together, and he stayed to care for her the next day. Meanwhile, Cao Yu’s students enjoyed an unexpected day off while the Cao Clan elders worried that he might blame them for setting him up.

• Xu Jiujiu kissed Cao Yu and asked him to leave their troubles until morning, and they spent the night together.
• Cao Yu woke beside Xu Jiujiu, then brought her breakfast and promised to stay with her for the day.
• A guard delivered news that gave Cao Yu’s students a day off, while Cao Goudan struggled with a physics formula and talked about becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Cao Xiang and the elders discussed how they had set Cao Yu up, and Cao Xiang worried that he would blame them.

Cao Yu woke beside Xu Jiujiu after spending the night with her and stayed at the imperial palace to care for her. Meanwhile, the Cao Clan family worried that they had set him up, but he returned home in good health and planned to spend another night at the palace.

• Xu Jiujiu stopped Cao Yu from asking questions, and they spent the night together at the imperial palace.
• Cao Yu woke beside Xu Jiujiu, brought her breakfast, and promised to stay with her for the day.
• A guard delivered news that Cao Yu had given his students the day off, leaving them relieved while Cao Goudan struggled with a physics formula.
• Cao Xiang and the old patriarch worried that the family had led Cao Yu into trouble and wondered whether he would blame them.
• Cao Yu returned to the Cao Clan residence in the evening, reassured his family that he was fine, and said he would spend the night at the imperial palace.

Cao Yu spent his time at the Star Luo Imperial Palace with Xu Jiujiu while arranging teachers for his students and inspiring Xu Jiawei to support Soul Tool research. After leaving Xu Jiujiu, Cao Yu returned to Shrek Academy with Huo Yuhao and found Room 108 already open.

• Cao Yu bought permanent knowledge skill cards and assigned Shadow Clones to teach his students so he could spend more time with Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiawei decided that the empire would buy Cao Yu’s Soul Tools and send more people to study at the Soul Tool Research Institute.
• Cao Yu told Xu Jiujiu he would leave the next day and promised to marry her, and they spent their final night together.
• Xu Jiujiu helped Cao Yu get ready and said goodbye to him the next morning.
• Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy with Tang Ya, Ning Tian, and Jiang Nannan, then found the door to Room 108 open.

Cao Yu reunited with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao before returning to Shrek Academy for the start of second year. He passed the advancement assessment, while Wu Feng was injured after choosing a much stronger Soul Beast to fight.

• Cao Yu returned to Dorm Room 108, reunited with Wang Dong, and asked about her vacation.
• Xiao Xiao arrived, leaped into Cao Yu’s arms, and spent the afternoon walking with him around Sea God Lake.
• Cao Yu spent the next two days preparing for classes, while construction began on the technology research institute he had planned outside Shrek City.
• Wu Feng blocked Cao Yu’s way into the yellow teaching building, and he pushed her aside before joining Xiao Xiao and Luo Yan in class.
• Zhou Yi explained the advancement assessment, and Cao Yu defeated a roughly thousand-year-old Soul Beast while concealing his true Soul Rings with mental Simulation.
• Wu Feng challenged a far stronger Soul Beast, returned injured, and Cao Yu laughed at her.